earned his hip-hop stripes back in 1993 alongside hip-hop super group A Tribe Called Quest. Cons made his rap debut on one of hip-hop's most cherished albums: Midnight Marauders, the 3rd album from Ali Shaheed, Phife Dawg, and Cons' cousin Q-Tip.

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The Queens , NY native made his real splash, however, when he touched up the Tribe's platinum Beats, Rhymes & Life for seven tracks, including the backpacker classic "Phony Rappers" and the hit "Stressed Out" with Faith Evans.

was as close to a fourth member as ATCQ could ever have, but in 2004, he found himself in the company of a second family: G.O.O.D. Music, the record label of Kanye West. Soon after he appeared on another hip-hop classic, Kanye's debut College Dropout, as Cons appeared on the huge hit "Spaceship."

With the extended G.O.O.D. (Getting Out Our Dreams) family in his corner,

scratches his itch and teams up with Clinton Sparks and the G.O.O.D. Music Family and returns to the mixtape scene with the 4th edition of The Cons, his acclaimed undergound mixtape series, entitled Finish What You Started

Representing Cons' journey from ATCQ fame to underground mixtape fame to a major label album release and world tour, "Finish What You Started" is a celebration of Cons' efforts in the rap game.

MixUnit.coms very own Clinton Sparks has a g.o.o.d. connection with the G.O.O.D. family, having already done two mixtapes with Kanye West (Touch The Sky and Smashtime Radio, vol. 1), DJ'ed for G.O.O.D.'s Grammy party, and setting up Mix Unit Collabos with G.O.O.D. affiliates like GLC and Rhymefest. So when it came time for G.O.O.D. to drop the official mixtape before his anticipated album, recruiting Clinton Sparks was a no-brainer!

The Cons, Vol. 4 mixtape features more than 20 new and exclusive tracks/freestyles from